Give a Cheer
More use of the 7 Gypsies pp pad. Some brads, flower torn handmade paper - all from stash. Lots of journaling and tore some handmade paper.
Journaling:
The Missouri State Memorial is located just south of the Stockade Redan, stop 10, on Confederate Avenue. It is one of two state memorials on the battlefield dedicated to soldiers of both armies. The height is symbolic of the forty-two Missouri units, 27 Union, 15 Confederate. It stands where two opposing Missouri regiments clashed in battle.
The monument features a bronze figure which represents "The Spirit of the Republic," as well as bronze reliefs depicting both Union and Confederate soldiers and was dedicated on October 17, 1917, during the National Peace Jubilee.
The bronze plaque reads:
‘ Here Brothers Fought
Here Confederates from Missouri fought Union soldiers from Missouri . At Vicksburg – and across every Civil War battlefield – men who had once been friends faced off as enemies. Neighbors and even family members found themselves on opposite sides, fighting for ideals. Did they hesitate to fire on each other?
In the officers' ranks were many men who had attended the same military academies. When Grant and Pemberton met to discuss surrender terms, they spoke as enemy commanders, but also as West Point graduates. The Civil War was not a struggle to fend off a foreign nation, but Americans fighting Americans.'
“…officers and men arrayed in opposed lines from 1861 to 1865 were American citizen soldiers, Union and Confederate alike…”
~Report on the National Memorial and Peace Jubilee, October 1917
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